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Cannot Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal…
- This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.…
- Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a…
- An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put…
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
- If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the…
- The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'…
- But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters…
- Unless we remember we cannot understand.
- The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something…
- We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst…
- The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which…
- In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,…
- How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build…
- I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
- Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
- To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
- Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our…
More Cannot Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. — Mark Twain